Debbi and Wendy,
Your idea of an NYC lunch sounds great! I had just found this forum when you were finalizing the plans for the lunch this past summer, and it seemed like a really nice thing to do. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to New York on November 15 -- we're having a group of people over for dinner that evening and the date can't be changed. It's sort of a high-maintenance group (i.e., neither pizza nor take-out Chinese will work) so I'll probably be spending most of that day in my kitchen getting things ready. If there's another lunch planned for the future I would love to join you all at that one.
Quick change of topic: Are any New Jerseyans/New Yorkers planning to attend the ANA/NJ mini-conference in Berkeley Heights on October 25? My husband, who's a physicist, became quite intrigued by the radiosurgery/radiotherapy aspects of AN treatment (even though I didn't follow that route) and he's quite eager to learn more, so we're both planning to attend. Never having been to one of these I'm not sure whether most of the attendees are likely to be newly diagnosed folks or those who've already been treated. Can anyone comment on that? I think my AN journey was about as textbook as they come (I'm not complaining, believe me), so I've nothing particularly inspiring to share, but I can at least show my BAHA.
Catherine (JerseyGirl2)
